Blow Moulding 
Blow moulding machinery maker Krones says net income increased 53.3% in 2012 thanks to a decrease in tax rates
22 March 2013
Sabic is preparing a plant in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, to produce bimodal HDPE for blow moulded bottle applications. Commercial production is due to start in the second quarter of this year
22 February 2013
Sipa, the Italian blow moulding specialist, is focusing on growth in North America after expanding operations in Atlanta, the US
15 February 2013
Alpla will spend more than $20m (€15m) to open a US blow moulding plant by July.
13 February 2013
Berlin-based investment company Capiton has purchased Steadfast Capital's stake in blow moulding machinery company Kautex Maschinenbau
8 February 2013
Italian blow moulding machinery maker Sipa is teaming up with Athena Automation – founded by Robert Schad of Husky Injection Molding systems fame – to build a line of automated PET preform injection and blow moulding equipment
20 December 2012
Italian blow moulding specialist Sipa has created a new line to help companies in emerging markets move into the PET bottle market
19 December 2012
Logoplaste, a rigid packaging manufacturer based in Portugal, is opening a new manufacturing plant in Kansas City, the US
28 November 2012
Kautex Maschinenbau has formed a team based in Germany to set up factories to make plastic cylinders for propane and natural gas — fully automated plants that use blow moulding, injection moulding and filament winding
14 November 2012
German blow moulding and bottling equipment supplier Krones AG and its US subsidiary Krones Inc will take a pretax hit of about $100m (€79m) to settle legal actions stemming from a fraudulent scheme run by former customer Le-Nature’s Inc, a Latrobe, Pennsylvania-based bottler of flavoured water, juices and teas that went bankrupt in 2006. Krones agreed to pay the US government a $15m (€12m) penalty for a non-prosecution agreement.
12 November 2012
Netstal, the Switzerland-based division of Krauss Maffei, has introduced Preblow, a new injection blow moulding process that the company claims will reduce bottle weight and cycle time
22 October 2012
Decades after the introduction of injection blow moulding (IBM), a new technique has entered the market that promises to offer higher output, better quality bottles and increased sustainability in an in-line sequence that does not require station-to-station transfer.
18 October 2012
Canadian private equity firm Onex, which is buying KraussMaffei, has experience in plastics machinery - selling Husky Injection Moulding Systems last year for a big payday and then buying Davis-Standard
1 October 2012
Dassault Systèmes has launched SolidWorks Plastics, a software tool that enables users to avoid manufacturing defects during the early stages of plastics part and injection mould design
10 September 2012
In its first year of commercialisation, Sacmi Imola says it has had a strong response to its compression blow forming technology
18 June 2012
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